Sentence examples for watching suffering from inspiring English sources

At the start of the second book, he tells us that it is sweet to look at someone's ship in trouble on the sea, not because people enjoy watching suffering, but because you are grateful to be safe yourself.

Not about voyeurism, not about watching suffering, but about the ability to sit beside people's lives and judge: right from wrong, a good performance from a bad one, etc. Follow Lauren Oyler on Twitter.

It is a grim cultural study of the political, military and intellectual élites of the early Nineties who watched suffering with a faux-realist relish and saw humane treatment as more dangerous than the disease.

The latter – forced to watch suffering with no chance of relieving it – formed far lower opinions of the woman, seemingly to "bring about a more appropriate fit between her fate and her character".

With each passing year, Kocherry watched suffering grow as fish stocks dwindled due to huge foreign trawlers sucking up everything in the sea.

Their findings reveal just how structural inequalities and lingering institutional discrimination shaped the disparities in who experienced the impacts of Katrina and help to explain the images of predominately African Americans and the poor that we and the world watched suffering on our television screens.

"I want to make people watch suffering," Blaine says.

Suffice to say that watching your suffering beloved be ignored, in the place meant to attend such suffering, is nearly as difficult as causing her pain yourself.

What do we get out of watching someone suffering on TV?

Am I supposed to feel good that the players I'm watching are suffering a lower rate of brain damage than before?

The NFL says that "football has never been safer," but that's some chickenshit moral calculus am I supposed to feel good that the players I'm watching are suffering a lower rate of brain damage than before?